We had a similiar problem with roaming profiles. It seemed to be caused from a difference in the time on the two machine. Once we synchronized the times, the directory deletetion worked flawlessly!!
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 18:09, Andreas Lundin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some odd problems with samba in combination with fam. On my linux > system I have mounted some partitions that are shared by a Win2k machine on > my LAN. With any GUI filemanager using fam I can create files and > directories, but I can't delete directories, only files. If I try to delete a > directory, it just doesn't work. If I try to delete a directory containing > files, the files will be deleted but not the directory. I've tried different > GUI filemanagers and the only one that returns an informative error message > is nautilus which tells me the directory is "busy", so I guess fam somehow > thinks the directory is used > by some other process. > > If I turn of fam, or use the console, I can delete the directories without > problems. The problem occurs only on samba shares, this problem doesn't > appear in my regular linux file system or on the local windows partitions I > have mounted. So it seems to be a problem related to fam working together with > samba (or maybe rather smbmount). > > I have tried fam 2.6.7, 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 with samba 2.2.8a on two different > machine and all with the same error. > > I mount the shares with the following line in /etc/fstab > > //moya/180gxp1$ /mnt/180gxp1 smbfs > fmask=775,dmask=775,dmask=0,gid=100,users,rw > > Is this a known problem, or am I making some glaring error? > > Thanks, > > //Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba